i consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and i do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
-coco chanel , april 29, 1939
lace - the invention of a goddess and the occupation of a queen - vinciolo
